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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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